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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Too much?  It's obviously not too much for the rest of the world, and they've started going past us academically and economically.

It's definitely too little but it's getting increasingly obvious that there are education operatives who don't want to be held accountable for it.

We're rapidly becoming a country where we are incapable of doing anything for ourselves.[/quote]

OMG the sky is falling down[/quote]

Here's some perspective:

The US is falling behind other countries in terms of R&D, science, innovation and technology - we used to be the world's leader, the world's most advanced country, now we're fast on our way to second-rate irrelevance.  Americans no longer pursue STEM fields in meaningful numbers.  These days, it's getting to where a large percentage of people in the STEM field in the US are foreigners who came to the US on visa.  These days it takes fewer credits to get an engineering degree in the US than it did in our parent's time - even though engineering has become more complex and deep with new developments - but less is covered in the coursework than what their predecessors had.  And even there, university professors lament how woefully underprepared many incoming students are, even those who came from "good" schools with high grade point averages.

And that's all because of the continued dumbing down of the curriculum in the US.

Evidently some people just don't give a damn if the US degenerates into being a third-world nation.[/quote]

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